The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog has started a series Feature of the Day posts for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2; as the most recent versions have been, these posts are in the form of PowerPoint slides; I am reposting them here so they can be read more easily.

View all related sales documents for a single transaction in one window

Accessible from Customer Maintenance, many sales inquiry windows, navigation lists and the home page

When I heard of the Purchasing version of this in 2015 R2 I was looking forward to it, but found the reality to be a little underwhelming as the window isn’ the friendliest around and is a little clunky. The screenshot above shows that the Sales All-In-One Document View is very similar to the purchasing one so fear I will find this equally clunky.

On this one I am open to someone telling me that there is actually a way to do this out of the box, but I haven’t been able to find it. On a SmartList I was creating, I needed to pull the customer item number and description through to a SOP transaction SmartList, but couldn’t find any table to link with.

As a workaround, I created this view which contains the required link using the CUSTNMBR from SOP10100 (Sales Transaction Work) and the ITEMNMBR from SOP10200 (Sales Transaction Amounts Work):

This one came up from a query a client had about linking a sales order transaction line to the customer item in SmartList Builder. The problem is that to join two tables together, you need all of the key fields to be on the same table; unfortunately, with the SOP Transaction table, this isn’t the case when you want to link to the customer item.

While there may be a way to do this in SmartList Builder I’ve not been able to work it out (other than using two calculated fields), it is easier, quicker and more reusable, to create a simple SQL View which returns the relevant information.

In this case the view I created works only for transactions which are at a status of work:

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 R2 has been released and, as with previous releases, Microsoft have started a Feature of the Day series on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP Team blog. As I have done with the last three series, I’ll be reposting these blog posts here with a little commentary.

The twenty fourth Feature of the Day is Customer Credit Limit Visual. In Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 R2, you have additional options that determine how and when you are notified of a customer who is over the credit limit you set for them.

In Receivables Setup, you can select to display an icon or give a warning message for a customer who is over their limit.

The existing process for an existing credit limit password will still be asked when entering a line item or saving a transaction.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 R2 will soon be released (due late May/early June and, as with previous releases, Microsoft have started a Feature of the Day series on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP Team blog. As I have done with the last three series, I’ll be reposting these blog posts here with a little commentary.

The twenty first Feature of the Day is Enable Email on All Sales Order Document Formats. The Print Options for Sales Orders currently only support email for ‘Blank’ document formats. This feature will support email for any document format for all Sales Order documents.

This feature is supported when printing from the Transaction Entry Window, Navigation Lists, and Print Sales Documents window.

While being able to all PO documents is a welcome feature, it is even more welcome on the Sales Order Processing side of things as I have a number of clients who need to produce a proforma invoice when the order is raised and this is typically done using one of the other document formats such as the Despatch Note Blank Form which can be emailed. It is going to be good to be able to configure the SOP Short Order Form as the proforma invoice and be able to use the despatch note for its intended purpose.

I recently implemented Microsoft Dynamics GP for a client who is a UK subsidiary of an American company. This client is a heavy user of the Inventory Control module with over 30,000 items (you’ll see the relevance of this soon).

Shortly after the go-live, users started reporting that windows were opening very slowly; for example, it was taking almost 2 minutes to open the Sales Transaction Entry window. I sat with one of the users and looked at the problem with them; it took a few minutes, due to the slowness, of checking various windows before realising that it was the windows with an Item Number field on them which were slow opening.

I did a quick search online and found a post on Dynamics Code Blocks by Tim Wappat where he had encountered a similar issue which was being caused by the AutoComplete function; this would make sense as by default the AutoComplete will remember 10,000 entries per field.

Which with over 30,000 items and a couple hundred sales orders being processed everyday meant the AutoComplete was quickly building up for each user.

Tim’s solution seemed to be a little more convoluted than I woulr have expected and involved deleting files in the Windows profile. I did a test with one of the users, by deleting the AutoComplete entries via User Preferences (Microsoft Dynamics GP menu ¯ User Preferences) and clicking the AutoComplete button (ringed in red):

This recently came up at a newly implemented client who makes extensive use of the Sales Order Processing module and sells across the world. Some of the sales orders and invoices printed off were coming off in the originating company and others in the functional.

We discussed with the users how the documents were being printed and established that some users were printing from the Sales Transaction Entry window, others from Print Sales Documents and others were using the Sales Order Transactions navigation list.

The documents printed through the navigation list were the ones which were always in the functional currency. The reason is that Sales Transaction Entry and Print Sales Documents have an option to select the Currency to Print whereas the navigation list print button doesn’t.

To remedy this, I have created an MS Connect suggestion to have the Currency to Print added to the print dialog on the navigation list which I would appreciate people voting for:

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog started a series of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 Feature of the day posts the other day. As they did with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day posts they are doing them as short posts containing a PowerPoint slide show. I am translating these from the PowerPoints into posts; you can find my series index here.

The thirty-fifth Feature of the Day covered is Print Remaining Documents. Users will now have the ability to email and print batches or statements in one step rather than having to handle those that will be emailed or printed separately.

In the PM, RM, SOP and POP Batch windows the UI will not change; the user will simply mark both options to Print and Send Documents in E-mail.

The Print Receivables Statements form will see the introduction of a new option for use hen emailing statements:

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